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The development of digitization methods for line drawings – especially in the area of electrical engineering – relies on the availability of publicly available training and evaluation data. This paper presents such an image set along with annotations. The dataset consists of \(1152\) images of \(144\) circuits by \(12\) drafters and \(48\,539\) annotations. Each of these images depicts an electrical circuit diagram taken by consumer grade cameras under varying lighting conditions and perspectives. A variety of different pencil types and surface materials has been used. For each image, all individual electrical components are annotated with bounding boxes and one out of \(45\) class labels. In order to simplify a graph extraction process, different helper symbols like junction points and crossovers are introduced, while texts are annotated as well. The geometric and taxonomic problems arising from this task as well as the classes themselves and statistics of their appearances are stated. The performance of a standard Faster RCNN on the dataset is provided as an object detection baseline.
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The authors coardially thank Thilo Pütz, Anshu Garg, Marcus Hoffmann, Michael Kussel, Shahroz Malik, Syed Rahman, Mina Karami Zadeh, Muhammad Nabeel Asim and all other drafters who contributed to the dataset. This research was funded by the German Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (Project SensAI, grant no. 01IW20007).
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Thoma, F., Bayer, J., Li, Y., Dengel, A. (2021). A Public Ground-Truth Dataset for Handwritten Circuit Diagram Images. In: Barney Smith, E.H., Pal, U. (eds) Document Analysis and Recognition – ICDAR 2021 Workshops. ICDAR 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12916. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86198-8_2
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